The Album Art Thread

[Euronomus]

Originally Posted by Holerbot6000

Latitudes - Agonist
They're post-metal, basically an Isis rip-off but a good one

[Holerbot6000]

Okay - I have to ask, because I'm just ignorant when it comes to all these classifications. What doe the demarcation 'Post' signify regarding music?

I understand that post generally means after, but how does that apply to music? Is the implication that metal or punk or pop went through some defining phase, and that there was a definitive end to it, signifying that anything coming after that period was considered 'post'?

For me, if a punk band is a punk band, then they are a punk band, regardless of the era in which they came to be, so the whole post thing throws me a bit.

I don't mean to be facetious - just seeking to understand...

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by Holerbot6000

Okay - I have to ask, because I'm just ignorant when it comes to all these classifications. What doe the demarcation 'Post' signify regarding music?

I understand that post generally means after, but how does that apply to music? Is the implication that metal or punk or pop went through some defining phase, and that there was a definitive end to it, signifying that anything coming after that period was considered 'post'?

For me, if a punk band is a punk band, then they are a punk band, regardless of the era in which they came to be, so the whole post thing throws me a bit.

I don't mean to be facetious - just seeking to understand...

Well, post-punk is actually a type of music that's pretty different from punk. It's named the way it's named because it grew out of punk, but that doesn't mean they're the same thing, and it doesn't mean punk ceased to exist when post-punk appeared.

[Euronomus]

Originally Posted by Holerbot6000

Okay - I have to ask, because I'm just ignorant when it comes to all these classifications. What doe the demarcation 'Post' signify regarding music?

I understand that post generally means after, but how does that apply to music? Is the implication that metal or punk or pop went through some defining phase, and that there was a definitive end to it, signifying that anything coming after that period was considered 'post'?

For me, if a punk band is a punk band, then they are a punk band, regardless of the era in which they came to be, so the whole post thing throws me a bit.

I don't mean to be facetious - just seeking to understand...

pretty much what Janszoon said, in the case of post-metal the name's really just a denotation of a more aggressive/heavier form of post-rock which is generally about taking the rock band format and doing something more symphonic and dynamic than most rock.

[Holerbot6000]

Thanks for the clarification(s).

[Mrd00d]

John Frusciante's (of RHCP fame, mainly) latest album ('09)

The word empyrean refers to the highest point in heaven.

Spoiler for John's Thoughts/Description on the album:

"The Empyrean is a story that has no action in the physical world. It all takes place in one persons mind throughout his life. The only other character is someone who does not live in the physical world but is inside it, in the sense that he exists in peoples minds. The mind is the only place that anything can be truly said to exist. The outside world is only known to us as it appears within us by the testament of our senses. The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand. Seeing our ideas take form is like being able to see the sun come into being. We have no equivalent to the purity of that in our account of the outside world. The outer world appears to each of us as one thing and it is always also a multitude of others. Inside to outside and outside to inside are never-ending. Trying and giving up are a form of breathing.
"My describing The Empyrean as a story is accurate from my viewpoint, but misleading, as there are no road signs to lead someone else to perceive a clear story out of it. There was no intention to write what would be seen as clear-cut story, though it is one to me. Being that it takes place in the mind of one person, no laws of time and space, or concrete relationships exist therein. This is to say that if you look into it with your logical brain you will only strain yourself and come up with nothing. The words were specifically written to document an inner experience of life, the kind that a person has extreme difficulty translating to anyone else. Part of the intention was to write words to connect with other people who have been, or are, overwhelmed by the confusing, inescapable inner world they must live in. Equal attention was given to writing words that would gently direct themselves towards the listeners' intuitive brain, and their sub-conscience, which I believe comprehends and catalogues everything in a much richer and more multi layered way than our conscious mind. Like a lot of lyrics, it was written to be perceived in as many ways as there are people hearing it. A person to whom the words have no clear, conscious meaning may derive more from it than someone who reads it as I do, and so I recommend hearing or reading it however you will. It would have been simpler to say nothing at all but this only fully occurred to me today, as I have gradually realized that by saying what it is to me, I am encouraging people to see it my way and to me, that's not what rock lyrics are for. I believe rock lyrics should be open to interpretation and I wrote these so they could be. While I could explain the story as I see it that would detract from the potential multifarious meanings that will come about from people applying their own sense of feeling from their life experience, much as they always do."

It should be played as loud as possible and it is suited to dark living rooms late at night.

[Janszoon]

Conga Fury—Dear Friends
I just think the cover works really well with the name of the album.

[hip hop bunny hop]

...you can find this on a t-shirt, too.

[Janszoon]

Sexy.

[kingcrimson]

How about Earth Quake - Rocking the World. This was put out on the Beserkley label.